Associated Press

Jay Leno (left) and Jimmy Fallon were all smiles at the Golden Globes in January. Fallon is now poised to replace Leno as “Tonight Show” host in one year.

NBC was so freaked out when Conan O'Brien lost the older "Tonight Show" demographic that it made a 180-degree bootleg turn and restored Jay Leno to the throne. Now the chickens have come to roost for both Leno and NBC, and Fallon is the usurper. But will the network let him do his thing - and will it work? »Read Full Article

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Truth is Leno just isn't funny, whether it's him or his writers who can say but Conan and Fallon are funny. Quirky and funny! I prefer to watch both of them and when Leno is gone it may bring me back to the Tonight Show.

The whole talk show format has gotten stale, in my opinion. It was fresh and new when Steve Allen did it and Johnny Carson had great success with it, but now I don't even bother to watch those shows because the monologue is frequently not funny, the obligatory skit is a waste of time, and you don't really have enough time with the guests to get into anything interesting.

I think Craig Ferguson is probably the funniest person in late night right now.

if you don't bother to watch, how do you know any of those things regarding monologues or "skits" or guests are true?

on another note Conan has gone from the funniest host on late night to unwatchable.Fallon, near unwatchable his 1st year, has improved where he now hosts the funnest, most enjoyable hour on late night.Letterman lost it years ago.Ferguson is very good, but a little Ferguson goes a long way.Kimmel is so average as to be nearly invisible.Leno is outright crap, but if the guest or music is interesting, i might DVR and skip the monologue.

If NBC was afraid to let Conan keep the Tonight Show, they're going to be just as squeamish when Fallon takes it over. O'Brien and Fallon have very similar styles and sheer absurdity in their skits. I like them both, but I don't know why NBC would be just fine with Fallon hosting and not O'Brien.

Duane, you fast-forward through a 5 joke, 3 minute monolog, really? I'd much prefer that type of monolog to Leno's 15 minute diatribe. I like Fallon, I DVR it every night and watch for the jokes, skits, games, and taped pieces. His interview style though is pathetic...as if he and his guest are giggling high school girls. I had watched Conan for years on Late Night and then for his brief Tonight Show stint. But I don't have room for Conan anymore with Fallon/Stewart/Colbert already in the rotation. Conan focused too much on the NBC debacle in his first few months on TBS and it got old for me fast.

I should also add that the late night shows that I don't watch (Leno, Letterman, Kimmel, Ferguson), I can still catch the funny parts on the web later. And as for Fallon on the Tonight Show, if he changes his schtick to fit the old Tonight Show, he will fail. Conan changed, or tried to, and it didn't work at all.